Flush toilet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10273672-B2
Application number	US-201715605667-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 25, 2017
Priority date	Jun 7, 2016
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

A flush toilet includes a toilet main unit, a reservoir tank, and a connecting pipe member configured to connect the toilet main unit and the reservoir tank in a watertight manner after the connecting pipe member is inserted into the reservoir tank so that the reservoir tank is assembled to a predetermined installation position. The connecting pipe member includes a communicating pipe portion configured to communicate between the conduit of the toilet main unit and an interior of the tank when one end of the connecting member is inserted from the interior of the tank through the outlet of the tank into the inlet of the conduit of the toilet main unit. A horizontal adjustment portion configured to adjust the orientation of the reservoir tank to a horizontal state is provided on the toilet main unit or on the reservoir tank.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flush toilet configured to discharge waste by flushing the flush toilet with flush water supplied by a jet pump action, the flush toilet comprising:
a toilet main unit including a bowl configured to receive waste, a conduit configured to guide flush water to the bowl, and an installation space being formed behind the bowl and being downwardly recessed from a top of the toilet main unit, the conduit including an inlet which is formed to open in a horizontal front-back direction of the toilet main unit;
a tank installed within the installation space, the tank being configured to store a portion of flush water supplied from a supply source and to supply flush water to the conduit in the toilet main unit;
a seal member connected in a watertight manner to an outlet of the tank and the inlet of the conduit of the toilet main unit, respectively; and
a connecting member configured to connect the tank to the toilet main unit in a watertight manner through the seal member with the connecting member which is inserted in the tank after the tank is installed in the installation space, wherein the connecting member includes a communicating pipe portion configured to communicate the conduit of the toilet main unit and an interior of the tank when one end of the connecting member is inserted from the interior of the tank through the outlet of the tank into the inlet of the conduit of the toilet main unit, wherein the communicating pipe portion extends from the one end to another end of the connecting member, and wherein the other end bends upward;
wherein the tank includes a jet pump unit and a supply valve in the tank, at least part of the jet pump unit being submerged, and the supply valve being configured to supply and shut off flush water supplied from the supply source to the jet pump unit in response to a water level inside the tank; and
wherein the jet pump unit includes a jet nozzle configured to jet flush water supplied from the supply source, and a throat pipe including a suction port at one end of the throat pipe and an outlet at other end of the throat pipe, the outlet of the throat pipe being connected to the communicating pipe portion;
wherein the jet nozzle being configured to induce a jet pump action so as to increase a flow volume of flush water flowing in the throat pipe more than a flow volume of flush water jetted from the jet nozzle by jetting flush water from the suction port toward an interior of the throat pipe so that increased flow volume of flush water is supplied from the throat pipe toward the conduit of the toilet main unit; and
the flush toilet further comprises a horizontal adjustment portion, the horizontal adjustment portion being configured to adjust an orientation of the tank to a horizontal state after the tank is installed within the installation space and after the tank and the toilet main unit are connected by the connecting member in a watertight manner through the seal member.

2. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the horizontal adjustment portion includes a positioning member configured to position a communicating path in a segment of the communicating pipe portion from the outlet of the tank to the inlet of the conduit of the toilet main unit to the horizontal state.

3. The flush toilet according to claim 2 , wherein the horizontal adjustment portion includes an operating portion interposed between the toilet main unit and the tank, the operating portion being configured to adjust a height position of the tank after the tank is assembled within the installation space behind the bowl of the toilet main unit.

4. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the seal member includes a tank outlet-side seal portion and a toilet main unit inlet-side seal portion, wherein the tank outlet-side seal portion is attached to the outlet of the tank, and the toilet main unit inlet-side seal portion is attached to the inlet of the toilet main unit with the tank being installed within the installation space; and
wherein the horizontal adjustment portion is configured to match positions among a center axis of the tank outlet-side seal portion, a center axis of the toilet main unit inlet-side seal portion, and a center axis of the communicating path in the communication pipe portion.

5. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the horizontal adjustment portion is provided on an outside surface of an outer portion of the tank.

6. The flush toilet according to claim 5 , wherein the horizontal adjustment portion is provided on each base portion at left and right sides of a back surface of the tank.

Assignees

• Toto Ltd

Inventors

• Harashima Tatsunari
• Ishimaru Ryoko
• Nakamura Kenichi
• Imaizumi Shoko

Classifications

• E03D1/012

  Details of shape of cisterns, e.g. for connecting to wall, for supporting or connecting flushing-device actuators {(mounting frames with incorporated cisterns E03D11/146)} · CPC title

• E03D11/02 Primary

  Water-closet bowls (auxiliary chambers with connections to flushing water for bowl-cleaning utensils E03D9/06; modified for using upwardly-directed sprays E03D9/08; seats or covers A47K13/00 ){; Bowls with a double odour seal optionally with provisions for a good siphonic action; siphons as part of the bowl (parts or details of bowls E03D11/13)} · CPC title

• E03D1/38

  Adaptations or arrangements of flushing pipes (noise-absorbing means in pipe systems F16L55/00 {; noise-reducing means in the flushing mechanism not in combination with flushing valves E03D11/00; provisions in the flushing pipe for evacuating leakage water from the cistern}) · CPC title

• E03D9/08

  Devices in the bowl producing upwardly-directed sprays; Modifications of the bowl for use with such devices (showers A47K3/28; bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes A61H33/00, for specific parts of the body A61H35/00 ){; Bidets; Combinations of bowls with urinals or bidets; Hot-air or other devices mounted in or on the bowl, urinal or bidet for cleaning or disinfecting} · CPC title

• E03D1/266

  exclusively provided with flushing valves as flushing mechanisms · CPC title